Subsisting hunger and severe hardship in the country appears not to be abating.
Media report about how hardship drives Nigerians to look for food in garbage, shocked many Nigerians recently.The report appeared on the front cover of the Vanguard Newspaper of Friday, January 17, 2025.
Many Nigerians saw the report as quite unbelievable.The question is: how can Nigeria with all its human and material endowment, degenerate to this level?
For experts, the situation has potentials to spark “a national emergency with devastating consequences.” They have also warned of the dire consequences the situation portends for the health of the citizens especially, children.
On the part of sociologists, severe hardship that drives citizens into scavenging for left overs in garbage, mostly in market places, strips citizens of their dignity.
However the present administration in the country tries to convince Nigerians to accept its policies (or reforms as they call it), it is becoming increasingly obvious that the much publicised reforms have not been able to quell the prevailing excruciating hardship pushing citizens to the brink.
Nigeria Newspoint had previously urged the President Bola Tinubu-led
federal government to, as a matter of urgency, reconsider its position on subsidy,; a major factor widely believed to have finally brought the country’s decade-long wobbling economy to its knees.
And who says petrol price cannot come back to N300 a liter, if subsidy returns in the meantime atleast, pending when both state-owned and private refineries will compete in supplying energy to the entire nation.
By now, President Tinubu ought to have realised that his administration’s deployment of palliative measures in an effort to cushion the harsh effects of the subsidy removal action, has apparently fallen short of the expectations of Nigerians.